Clarion 1966-03-16 Vol 41 No 17

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Coeval editors, seniors Jud Nelson and Phoebe Netterland meet extracurricularly to discuss the woes
and rewards of their literary task as they examine current "Patterns in Expression."
Vo me XLI — No. 17 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, March 16, 1966
Senate Moves Constitution Change;
Ammendment Faces Friday Ballot
Banquets highlighted last weekend's social activity. As can be
seen, a good time was had by all.
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BETHEL COLLEGE
Student Senate Accepts
Candidacy Declarations
Coeval Depicts
Literary Value
Patterns in Expression. The idea
that all arts share the same ele-ments
is exciting. Literature has
rythms and movement and the
values the same as music or art,
but the media and arrangement
of the elements differ.
This suggested "patterns in ex-pression"
as the subtitle of the
1966 COEVAL.
Coeval serves the student body
in two basic areas of experi-ence:
individual and social. Be-cause
of the very published
nature of COEVAL it is an out-let
for creativity that gives per-sonal
satisfaction to the contri-butor.
A work in print means a certain
level of achievement; achievement
is incentive. The social experience
of a student is a sharing of inspir-ation
and ideas. On a campus
basis COEVAL a vehicle of com-munication.
The patterns are as many and
varied as the moods and ideas
expressed. In literature an essay
on artistic theory or criticism, a
satire on current problems or con-ditions,
etc., can be as creative
as a poem or short story.
In music a folk song is as valid
a contribution as a full length
symphony. And in art again the
field is wide open: paintings,
sculpture, and photography all
fit under the idea of expression.
The form of the book is defined
by student contribution and its
scope and quality depends on stu-dent
interest.
An All School Mixer is planned
for this weekend, March 19th at
7:30 p.m. in the college fieldhouse.
There will be an admission charge
of 35 cents.
Students attending will be fav-ored
with vocal solo by the "es-teemed"
Leonard Simons. Includ-ed
in the evening will be an old-time
movie, and some famous
skits.
Awards will also be presented
to the World's Greatest Lover and
the Most Famous Wing in the girls'
dorm.
Take out all your frustrations
while playing volleyball and bas-ketball.
The evening will conclude
WORDS TO THE WISE!
All those students planning
to run for Senate positions in
the coming election are request-ed
and encouraged to attend
the Senate meetings which are
held Tuesdays after Chapel in
lower level lounge.
On Friday, March 17, in the
Coffee Shop from 10:30 a.m.-3:30
p.m., the Bethel Student body is
asked to vote on a proposed Con-stitutional
change concerning elec-tion
requirements.
Senate has voted affirmatively
for this change. The students will
make the final decision on Friday
as to whether the Constitutional
ammendment will be instituted.
At present th? Bethel Ccnsti
tution, Article V, Section 1A, on
Janet Morgan, counselor in the
White Bear school system, will
speak at the March 22 Student Na-tional
Education Association
(SNEA) meeting in room 211 at
7:30 p.m.
Her topic is "What is a Profes-sional
Teacher" and related to the
new professional practices act and
her involvement in TEPS, Teach-with
good food—on the theme of
Saint Parick's day. The dress is
very casual and tennis shoes only.
Come, ready to participate and
have an enjoyable evening—watch-ing
your friends make fools of
themselves.
Class Arranges
Enormous Sale
The Sophomore Class White
Elephant Sale is coming to Bethel
March 24th and 25th. The Coffee
Shop will then be transformed in-to
a special bargain basement with
all items priced "cheap."
Class President Pete Porter says
that old things are needed—any-thing
from anybody—faculty, stu-dents,
janitors, or cooks.
The qualification, of course, is
that they are not broken and are
sellable. Barrels to collect the
"merchandise" will be in the Cof-fee
Shop beginning Thursday.
Qualifications f o r Elections,
reads: At the time of his nomina-tion,
a candidate for executive
office shall be an Association
member in his second consecu-tive
semester at Bethel College
and shall have a cumulative
honor point ratio of at least
2.5.
He shall maintain both his As-sociation
membership and an honor
ers' Educational and Professional
Standards.
Dr. Runbeck and Pat Fleming
heard Miss Morgan speak at the
State SNEA Leadership Confer-ence
and were impressed with
her ideas concerning the in-volvement
of the individual in
his profession even as a stu-dent.
Pat Fleming, president of
Bethel's SNEA, says: "After at-tending
the State SNEA Leader-ship
Conference and working with
those interested in education, I am
confident that education is a great
field. A new awareness of the im-portance
of being involved in a
professional group such as our
own SNEA has occurred. Students
must begin to work for their pro-fession
now."
In addition to discussion of
teaching as a profession, there will
be election of new officers at the
March 22 meeting.
Meetings in the past have of-fered
a variety of experiences
in the field of education. First
year teachers who have grad-uated
from Bethel have returned
to compare the actual situation
with that encountered as student
teachers.
Mr. Churchill from the State
Education Association spoke on
aspects of salary scales and what
to look for when signing contracts.
A sports night in the gym gave
students a chance to acquaint
themselves with other students in
their areas of interest. A film,
"Children Without" depicted so-cially
deprived children and sug-gested
ways in which they could
be helped.
Declaration of Candidacy notices
will be placed in student post
office boxes on Thursday, March
17.
Declarations of Candidacy are
being placed in P. 0.'s to
alert students to the coming
election, to encourage students to
discuss possible candidates, and to
offer each student the chance to
accept or reject the possibility
of running for a position of respon-sibility
in his student government.
Once a student has decided to
sign his Declaration of Candida-cy,
he should take it to the
Senate office (lower level base-ment)
and place it in the box
point ratio of at least 2.5 during
his term of office.
The PROPOSED CHANGE reads:
At the time of his nomination, a
candidate for an executive office
shall be an Association member
in his second consecutive semester
at Bethel College and shall have
a cumulative honor point ratio of
at least 2.25.
He shall maintain both his
Association irdernbership and an
honor point ratio of at least
2.25 during his term of office.
The essence of the change is to
lower the required grade point
ratio of those candidates who will
be running for the offices of Pres-ident,
Vice President, Campus Co-ordinator
and Treasurer.
Senate feels such a proposal
will be beneficial in that a greater
number of students will be quali-fied
to run for executive offices.
Persuasion and radio and tele-vision
classes will participate in an
interesting "lecture demonstra-tion"
Tuesday, March 22, called
"Spots Before Your Eyes." The
demonstration will be led by Mr.
Bruce Sifford, a Lutheran layman
and the director of the Minnesota
Church Committee on Radio and
Television.
The program concerns religi-ous
advertising from various his-marked
"Declarations and Peti-tions
for Candidacy."
At that time he should pick up
a petition in the senate office.
It is suggested that a friend carry
the petition around. The petition
must be signed by 30 students.
No person should place his sig-nature
on more than one petition
for the executive petitions or on
more than five petitions for the
Senate Member-at-large petitions.
Candidates would do well to
keep their eyes and ears open
as to who else will be running.
Each candidate should try to a-lign
himself with others of like
opinions. Parties should emerge
from these alignments.
Party platforms should be drawn
up and party primaries should
have been held prior to March 25,
the date of Primary Elections.
Candidates or politically inter-ested
students should talk to Sen-ate
members and officers: Bill
Madsen, Roger Waldenstrom, Bert
Heep, Jonelle Olson, Cabot Dow,
Phil Linden, Warren McMullen,
Mike Rynkiewich, Dennis Wall,
Joan Anderson, Dick Lawrence,
Vern Lewis, Dick Folden, Kathy
Harvie, Ray Peterson, Ron Stone,
Paul V. Johnson, Terry Kuntz,
Jaci Clark, Betty Magnuson, Barb
Kredit, and Steve Roe.
Trial Vespers
Under Critique
The Religious Committee's ex-periment
in Sunday evening Ves-per
services will continue for an-other
three weeks. Then, having
ciy Cnrirlar• to ann-lyze,
they will be extended accord-ing
to student response.
Dick Schultz, head of the Reli-gious
Committee, feels that the
next few services will be the real
test inasmuch as many students
will be on various trips or in-volved
in concerts.
Beginning March 20th, the ser-vices
will start at 8:30 p.m. rather
than 8:00 p.m.
torical and contemporary perspec-tives.
It will include several radio
"spots" or cuttings of the nature
of Stan Freberg's recent church
"advertisements" on radio.
The public is invited but there
are only 60 seats available. The
program will be presented in the
Old Seminary Chapel, from 1:30
to 2:30 p.m. on March 22.
Mixer Offers Fun and Games,
Presents Food, Old-Time Flick
SNEA Meeting Discusses
`The Professional Teacher'
Religious Advertising Director
Investigates Broadcast Trends
Mike Mansfield said Thursday Sincerely,
that he doesn't think President Q. T. Smih
Johnson is giving adequate con-sideration
to proposals to blockade
North Vietnam ports at this time.
Mansfield said he thinks bombing
the docks or intercepting supply
ships would drive Soviet and Chi-nese
Communists closer tegether.
New Delhi
Sikh volunteers shouting religi-ous
war cries counterattacked
thousands of stone-throwing Hin-dus
with spears and swords today
after the Hindus marched on the
holiest Sikh shrine in New Delhi.
It was the fourth day of rioting
in India by Hindus protesting the
federal givernment decision to es-tablish
an official Punjabi-speak-ing
state. Punjabi is the language
of the Sikhs.
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or seminary.
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the CLARION Wednesday, March 16, 1966
Reviewer Rakes Pseudo-Rationalism
Exercise of Involvement Evident in Anti-Evolutionary Treatise
Opens Creative Leaders
In lieu both of the present situation and function of the
Bethel College Student Senate as well as the pending student
government elections, it is important to examine the role the
student plays governing himself in the campus environment.
Basic to our discussion, we should recognize that offering
responsible functions to students should have the effect of
hastening their maturation and their sensitivity to civic par-ticipation.
This is good theory.
However, the facts reveal that all too often on the
Amercan scene college and university administrations, in
the midst of their declaration of eagerness to give youth
a proper sphere of campus activity, frequently interpret
this "proper sphere" as one far removed from serious and
vital campus decisions.
It is always easy to shepherd the leaders of the student
flock away into a far-removed, sheltered corner of the campus
pasture. If the leaders are there, like sheep, the student flock
will follow. Here they can carry on rather harmlessly, for
after all, anything they should decide that may be contrary
to administrative opinion can be squelched quite easily. Here,
as well, the student government becomes quite docile, and
with little power, insignificant.
Since there is little apparent conflict between student
interest and administrative policy, the educators, therefore,
applaud themselves on the smooth functioning of the school
and the great cooperation between student and administration,
when actually there is, in fact, little room for significant
student opinion.
Samuel B. Gould, Chancellor of the University of Cali-fornia,
Santa Barbara, quite pointedly states that "college
and universities with this approach can always be recognized:
they talk loudly and long about their superiority, boast of
the even and efficient tenor of the campus way, and carefully
eliminate the mavericks. They champion the "well adjusted"
and socially competent product whose major claim to recog-nition
is that he has not been troublesome."
Now, if we assume that the college is basically a labor-atory
for the training of the citizenry, it should be thought
of as a community-structured unit. Hence we call ourselves
the Bethel Community.
The problem, however, as pointed out by Paul Brouwer,
is the fact that often there is a double-cultured group within
the community, the students with their mores and traditions,
and the faculty and administration with their patterns and
customs. The problem of the community is to synthesize these
two standards into one, and this cannot be done without lower-ing
the barriers of faculty-student communication.
In his study, COLLEGE STUDENT GOVERNMENT, Dr.
Gordon Klopf suggests that the areas overlooked both by
administrations and students are the programs in which
they work closely together.
He states, "Committees which deal with student affairs
policies should have adequate student representation. Com-mittees
which are planning new curriculums or evaluating
present curriculums should at least consult students for their
opinions and ideas. College faculties and administrations should
be constantly on the lookout for possible opportunities to
expand the role of the student in administration."
Quite obviously involving students more deeply in ad-ministrative
capacities will be a burden to those faculty and
administration members involved. It may at times be annoying,
especially when it may take twice the time to accomplish a
task because of the student's trial and error method. Hours and
years of experience could have finished it sooner. But this
trial and error method is invaluable to the educative process.
Most important, however, is the fact that the administra-tion
cannot champion one of the salient ingredients of the
democratic process, namely, creative leadership, wtithou;t)
giving students the chance to effectively develop and exercise
it.
(ACP)—A group of students and
ing within the system and using
the attic of the student center at
instructors who met recently in
all available resources and pre-rogative
powers available to the
student as an autonomous self-
Wayne State University, Detroit, determining individual."
had little in common except that
In a policy statement, the group
they had complaints about the said:
University and they wanted
change. "It is our concern that student
freedom and the educational ex-
Out of the meeting came a new perience are being infringed upon
organization — the Students' Or- by the lock-step, patchwork of the
ganization for University Reform quarter that is the present Univer-
— set up to promote student in- sity education factory.
volvement in University affairs and
"This organization shall be a issues. The group was formed to
channel for collating specific do more than criticize, reports the
mechanical problems, e.g., inad-
Daily Collegian; it also plans to
equate classrooms, salaries, hous- propose workable solutions to Uni-ing,
parking, and to link these
versity problems. with the larger underlying is-A
spokesman for the group sues common to all involved in
said this will be done "by work- the educational experience, e.g.
by Michael Rynkeiwich fluously decorated with psycholog-ical,
biochemical and anthropolog-ical
catch phrases intended to lend
authority to nonsense.
It is necessary to impose upon
you an example of Paulson's work.
It is an entire paragraph.
"An honest appraisal of the
beginnings of life focuses atten-tion
upon deliberate falsehood,
which stems from an acceptance
that hypothesis is something
which guarantees the so-called
inevitable truth, for which there
is no basis in fact. From a such
wider horizon of intellectualism,
I can now say (and without fear
of honest criticism) that for too
long absconding atheists and
"discussion" of evolution super- theists alike have substituted an
IMP AMP,
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by Bruce Lawson
port than previously because of
his efforts to avoid escalation o
Singapore
the Vietnam war.
Indonesia's new army chief Lt.
Miami
General Sukarto announced last
week that the new military re- England's Prince Philip, also
known as the Duke of Edin- gime's foreign policy will be "anti-burgh,
began his 10,000 mile tour
capitalist, anti-imperialist" and
of North America last week in
generally anti-west. the hopes of raising as much as
a million dollars for children's
Saigon charities throughout the world.
Vietnam students in protest of
Major General Nguyen Chanh Thi's Washington, D.C.
dismissal, seized government ra-dio
stations in three major cities
and broadcast demands for the
General's reinstatement.
Washington
According to American offi-cials,
the NATO bases in France
are not indispensable to the ef-fective
defense of Europe. The
withdrawal of the 30,000 men
and their families from France
will cost the country up to $150
million in net dollars income.
Tokyo
In a series of three articles,
Communist China has hinted that
the U.S. may have the advantage
in the future. It is not known
what has replaced this new pessi-mism
in Peking for the unwaver-ing
public optimism of the past.
Washington, D.C.
Sen. George D. Aiken, R.-Vt.
said that critical senators are giv-ing
President Johnson more sup-the
quality of education, the
learning process, students rights,
and academic freedom.
"To facilitate our ends we shall
institute groups (a) to process
specific grievances of any and all
factions, student and faculty, left
and right; (b) to study viable al-ternatives
to the present system;
(c) to be concerned with the
mechanics of various channels
open to us within the system and
without; and (d) to enlist the sup-port
of the whole University."
Some of the issues discussed at
the meeting but not mentioned in
the statement are the quarter
system, grading system, freedom
of demonstration, inavailability of
instructors, sports, library hours,
and additional courses.
Ed. Note—JULIE THE BIOCHEMIST, Carl A.
Paulson, published by Ancient and Prophetic
Literary Research Publishers, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, 1965.
It is said that a little learning
is a dangerous thing. This pam-phlet
should be feared as a repre-sentation
of the result of very
little learning.
In an honest attempt to under-stand
the thesis and to grasp the
main point of the essay, the pres-sent
reviewer was able only to
come up with a headache.
The author's essay is an ag-gregate
of meaningless para-graphs
with topics roaming aim-lessly
from evolution to the con-dition
of the true believer.
The thesis first introduced is a
College Reform Committee Tackles
Bewildering Pan-Campus Problems
An alumnus of Behel (with a
4•10, Canadian accent) was heard to re-mark,
"That was the most impres-sive
game I have seen in ten
years!"
It was a most exciting game for
all of the fans, and all members
of the Bethel Community should
be proud of the team.
Many of the players have pur-chased
their own equipment, and
have devoted considerable time
and energy to keep the team to-gether.
As a member of the fac-ulty,
I feel that it was worth it!
obscured fancy for truth and
faith—the true building blocks
of life."
In context and out of context
one finds the same unfounded as-sumptions,
ambiguity and sheer
nonsense. This pamphlet is not
worth buying even for a laugh. It
is sad to see such pseudo-rational
farce in print.
Letter:
Smith Praises
To the Editor:
Tribute should be paid to the
Bethel hockey team for their de-cisive
win over River Falls!
Royal Players, Vince Bloom and Dick Fredrickson consider the
"Church Militant" in last Sunday's Drama Club presentation.
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Interview With Madsen
Shows Political Outlook
by Dave Fredine
Q—What do you expect from the
coming elections?
A—As has been the case in the
last three or four years. I think
there will be a scarcity of candi-dates.
The percentage of voters
might increase a little; last year
forty-five percent of the student
body voted. I don't see any auto-matic
winners, so people may rea-lize
the value of each vote. There
are really very few people with
any experience so there's nothing
to keep out interested freshmen.
Q—What changes have you
seen in student government this
year?
A—Senate relations with the
administration ha v e improved
greatly over the last couple of
years. We have had monthly lunch-eon
meetings with the administra-tors
which have broken down
many of the tensions and improved
communication.
This year's Senate is composed
of a wider cross-section of the
student body so communication
with students has improved also.
Student opinion of Senate has
waned. Unfortunately, a group
of upperclassmen who are close
friends, call it a clique if you
wish, have carried the ball in
Senate for several years.
Many of the students, freshmen
especially, have felt that they are
unapproachable. However, it was
the student body that elected this
group.
Opinions about student govern-ment
are changing all over. All
of the private colleges in the
Twin Cities are considering con-stitutional
revisions or abolishing
student government all together.
Q—What are some areas that
you think next year's Senate
should be active in?
A—Interests are changing away
from big social functions toward
the academic and the considera-tion
of serious life issues. This is
becoming obvious at Bethel, so
next year's Senate shouldn't spend
much time maintaining the tra-ditional.
Having more evening forums
and more off-campus speakers
would be one way to go about it.
I recently appointed a committee
for freshmen Senators to check
into the possibilities of getting a
coffee house in the neighborhood.
Q—What do you think about
the motion to abolish Senate?
A—It grew out of the feeling,
if I interpret it right, that a large
legislative body doesn't represent
student opinions. Those who sup-port
it seem to think that Senate
ought to do more than plan ban-quets.
The specific proposal was
made to give students a concrete
alternative to a large Senate.
Since there is a reaction against
this proposal, it seems that the
students feel the need for keeping
this kind of representative body.
So, the problem isn't whether or
not to abolish Senate but how to
change it to meet student demands.
Q—What role do you think a
student government can have in
a small college.
A—In a small school both the
students and the student govern-ment
are well-acquainted with the
administration, so there is greater
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by Anita Palm
Playing to a small but respon-sive
audience, the players in the
"Church Militant" showed with
pointed satire the possible out-come
of a world centered church.
The play opens in the chamb-ers
of the Celestial Council where
Saint Paul, John Wesley, and Mar-tin
Luther—Dick Fredrickson, T.H.
Bryant, and Vince Bloom, respec-tively,
are discussing the "desper-ate
condition" of the church. They
have heard reports of the over-organization
and secularization of
the Christian church and must
decide what action should be tak-en.
Paul is sent immediately to in-vestigate
the situation personally.
As Paul enters the church,
he meets the janitor who is
cleaning up after one of the
numerous parties held in the
church the night before. Some-what
alarmed, Paul inquires fur-ther
and is shocked to hear of
"at home" worship through ex-clusive
television coverage and
"take home communion" for the
convenience of the members.
Hearing of the enormous beacon
to be installed on the top of the
church to attract people, Paul re-calls
with irony the commandment
to let our lights so shine among
men. The entire foundation of the
church is based on popular appeal
to the sinning masses supported
by funds raised through all manner
of contests. The distortion is na-turally
quite disturbing to Saint
Paul.
Justification of the various
church activities is found in hav-
Senate President Bill Madsen
ing to "keep up with the times"
and "talk to the children in their
own language." The church is
thereby known as "The Friendliest
Church This Side of Heaven!"
The true "brotherly love" of
the members is seen in a heated
debate over a regulation con-cerning
the tours to be given
through the "plant." Thelma,
(Jill Graham) a guide in the
church, is furious that she is not
allowed to take their guest Paul
through the customary tour. The
battle that ensues reveals that
the super-organization and com-petition
of the church tends to
make hash of the whole "spirit-ual
goal" (which incidently, not
one of the members could define
for Paul.)
Paul summed the essence of the
entire confused haggle when he
Wednesday, March 16, 1966
What should motivate a student
to run for a student government
office? What would be your an-swer
to such a question? Consid-ering
the nearness of Senate elec-tions,
it might be wise for voters
and candidates alike to start ask-ing
this question and other ques-tions
similar to it.
Here are the answers given by
a number of student government
leaders to the question "What
should motivate a student to run
for a student government office?"
Junior Class President Ron Har-ris
says: "The responsibility of
leadership which one encounters
proclaimed, "I thought the church
at Corinth had trouble!"
Because there is little in the
way of properties and only the
simplest costuming, one was able
to concentrate on the script. Also,
the spirited acting of the players
sparked the text into meaningful
conversation to show the point of
the play.
The play admittedly is an exag-geration.
Yet, through this means
it is able to highlight the tenden-cies
of the ever growing church
today. There is little given in the
way of solution, but Paul ended
the production prophetically plead-ing
to God to bring hope. There is
still time to curb the slide toward
the "Church Militant."
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in political offices develops the
best qualities in an individual. It
certainly develops patience, which
in Christian circles, is supposed to
be an extremely golden virtue.
Historically speaking, the privilege
to be a part of a democratic
process, however slight, is one not
to be taken lightly."
"Personally, my interests cover
the total academic, social, and spir-itual
climate of our college. I
would like to see students more
actively involved in governing each
of these areas — and for that
reason look to student government
leadership as the logical place in
which to spark this type of total
concern." Jim Keim
"A student should run for a
student government office IF he
sees the necessity of the student's
concerns to be actively presented
to the powers that be (administra-tion)
and IF he feels he can help
see this accomplished." Steve Roe
"Christ's statements concerning
love should be followed on a social
level as well as an individual level.
Mature "agape" implies concern
and responsibility for others. Stu-dent
government provides an op-portunity
for the individual to
concretely express such concern
and responsibility." Kathy Harvie
"Why should one desire to serve
in a student government office?
Maybe for selfish reasons: 1. Cer-tainly
there is some prestige. 2.
One can learn a great deal in plan-ning
programs and in working with
people. 3. The office is noted on
one's permanent record."
However there is more than all
of this. There should be the desire
to serve and the desire to get in-volved
in the activities rather
than to sit in the backgrounds."
Dick Schultz.
"The primary reason for getting
involved in student government
should be based on the individual's
INTEREST for such an organiza-tion."
Roger Waldenstrom
"Student government presents
an opportunity to 1. serve others
and thus serve the Lord, 2. to ex-ercise
and develop any leader-ship
capabilities, 3. to help insti-tute
certain needed changes at
Bethel." Bill Ledbetter
"The ideal student has creative
ideas on how to construct solu-tions
to the everyday aspirations
and problems of his classmates.
He becomes an ideal candidate
when he is willing to sacrifice
personal goals in order to share
his ideas, time and ability to help
realize the goals of the communi-ty."
Bill Swenson.
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For an appointment
IZiectr Zthinp
I wonder if my concept of the man Jesus is ' more than sligthly
distorted. Often I think we imagine Christ as piety personified and
little else. Being human he must have had a human personality —
tend to think it was a bit introverted.
Imagine Christ having to break away from the crowds so often.
They just saw what he did for them physically and missed the point
of why he was really with them. Can't you see him haggard at the
end of the day — disappointed, wondering how to get through to them?
When we read "Suffer the little children to come unto me . . ."
do we picture him kindly patting them on the head? It's my guess he
probably got down and played an early form of jacks with them.
How did Christ act toward his mother? I don't believe there was
any gooey sentiment between them, but he went to her for strength,
I'm sure. At least she understood his purpose and ministry.
Not wanting to bring Christ lower than he was, it's good to realize
that because of his humaness he was not somehow protected by an aura
of divine light surrounding him as he walked through the desert.
He probably got headaches after glaring in the sun all day, and
his feet probably hurt. Yet the fact that he experienced things
just like we do makes him all the more wonderful.
Who is Jesus? I'm going to start studying in light of his humanity
as well as his divinity. I don't think it will "bring him down to my
level" but will make him all the more dear for realizing the implica-tions
of his day to day existence.
Sincerely,
Royal Players Present Rott's Drama;
Play Satirizes Secularized Church
Survey Asks Motivation ;
Campus Leaders Respond
Page 4
the CLARION Wednesday, March 16, 1966
Royalettes Post Successful Season
Gain Honors, Presentable Record
by Jeff Loomis
Playing the fullest schedule in
the team's short history, this year's
edition of the Bethel Women's
Basketball team finished out their
season with an 11-6 record and a
large number of honors for team
members.
Girls playing on the team were
present at the Sports Banquet
held Monday evening for partici-pants
in winter season sports. Six-teen
team members received let-ters,
almost doubling last year's
total of awards. This figure re-flected
an increased number of
participants in the sport this sea-son.
Barb Lindman, sophomore play-er
on the team, was far in the
lead for scorers, concluding the
year with 232 total points. She
was followed by Jan Markel!,
who recorded 111 counters, and
Bev Anderson with 98 points.
Bev also took honors for free
throws, shooting a percentage of
60% of her shots during the sea-son.
Girls on the team voted for Most
Valuable and Most Improved play-ers,
to whom awards were present-ed
at the Monday evening banquet.
Barb Lindman was rated Most Val-uable,
while Marge Rubow and
Sandy Spurgeon, two freshmen
team members, shared the prize
for Most Improved.
On the team scene, the girls
finished ahead of their oppo-nents
in scoring for the season,
tallying an average of 29 points
against 24 for the other teams.
Miss Jean Anderson, who in
her freshman year of coaching
led the way to the team's out-standing
record, was reluctant to
cite one game or tournament as
the highlight of the season. She
did hazard a guess, however.
"Probably the most exciting ex-perience
was on the last clay of
the season, when we played at the
University of Minnesota, defeating
River Falls and Macalester and
losing to the 'U' by one point in
overtime," she said.
Well-planned publicity by team
members resulted in some fair-ly
well-attended games this sea-son.
Nevertheless, Miss Ander-son
expressed the wish that more
students will be attending games
when next year's team opens its
season.
Promises for '66-'67 appear good.
Only one senior is graduating,
leaving the school with the base
group for another excellent team.
Bethel Royalettes posted a respectable 11-6 record
fullest season ever engaged by a team in the recent history
basketball at Behel.
during the
of women's
`Pit' Rivals Dorm Council
As Dorm Tourney Ends
Monday and Tuesday nights,
March 7 and 8, saw the Edgren
men fighting out the semi-finals
of their basketball tournament.
Monday night's game ended with
the "Pit" boys victorious over first
floor new wing men with a score
of 44-39. During the entire first
three quarters of the game, the
first floor fellows maintained a
fairly consistent lead of one or
two points.
However, in the last quarter
first floor was plagued with fouls.
The Pit was aided largely by the
skill of Ron Pederson.
Tuesday's battle was between
the Dorm Council and second floor
new wing. The Dorm Council was
triumphant with a 59-34 victory.
Action in the first half of the game
was simply a see-saw between the
opponents.
The second half of the game
switched suddenly in favor of the
Dorm Council in a sudden break.
Lantz Leonard and Paul I. John-son
were responsible for the lead-ership
of their team to bring them
in dramatically 25 points ahead.
The final round between the Pit
Boys and the Dorm Council was
played Tuesday night.
Student Government President
Evaluates New Senate's Future
cont'd from page three
opportunity for initiating ideas
and programs. The students and
student government are also in
closer touch with each other.
The student government can in-fluence
many areas of campus life:
for example, curriculum, school
policies, personnel, intellectual
awareness, political awareness, cul-tural
awareness, social concern and
social interaction.
0—What do you think the fu-ture
of student government at
Bethel will be like?
A—I think that there will al-ways
be a desire for student gov-ernment
at Bethel. We have had
motions to abolish it in the past.
In '55-'56 a motion to abolish
Senate was put before the whole
student body and was defeated by
only five votes.
The future of student govern-ment
depends on student involve-ment
and the students' willingness
to contribute time and ideas. You
can see the influences of some
students' willingness to work
through the Senate in things like
the Sunday evening Vesper ser-vice,
the missionary project, the
pictured roster, changing dorm
hours, increasing lounge space,
continuing the publication of the
SPIRE and the food service corn-mittee.
The Senate does not lack for
finances, power or opportunity.
The only limitation I can see on
the potential of student govern-ment
at Bethel is lack of stu-dents
who are willing to contri-bute
effort, initiative, and ideas.
The value of next year's Senate
will be forecast by the willingness
of students to run for office and
assume the accompanying respon-sibility.
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Ed.Note—The following article, written by Sports Editor,
John Ryan, appeared in the St. John's RECORD, February 15, 1966.
Although based on the sports climate at St. John's University,
applies equally well to the attitude on Bethel's campus.
WHEN THE ICEMAN of the midwest has St. John's locked securely
In his mid-winter freezer, what does Johnny do to keep sane? He plays
sports. He delves in everything from handball to ping-pong. He wreaks
frustration on frozen ski hills and in sweaty weight rooms. He does
it for competition and just for the heck of it.
He plays not one but many sports, depending upon the season.
Seasonal intramurals are virtual war games, with as many as 300 bat-tling
for recognition as the school's best non-lettermen. Yet our Gothic
gym hums continually with friendly pick-up games where no ref is
needed.
The significance of all this may be that the phenomena of sports
contributes more to what is termed "Johnny Spirit" than we realize.
True, much is said about the scholar-athlete but this is the case in any
school. What is uniquely present here is the almost total absence of
a sports clique. Our athletic successes belong not to scholarship fra-ternity
Adonises but to men we know, study and live with.
Sports here are more than a headline or a letter jacket; they are
as much a part of St. John's as the education and permeate Collegeville
existence. Sports serve as an adhesive and if and when St. John's
becomes a "weekend" school the apathy will strike first in athletics.
Not that we won't have our share of championship teams but the
seams of intra-athletics will come apart under the influence of mobility.
As a consequence, St. John's will witness, to a large extent, the break-up
of whatever else constitutes Johnny Spirit. Gone will be the factor
of healthy sports, the major deterrent to stale academic competition.
Thus, I think when one discusses or reflects upon what St. John's
is and will be, he should realize that pride in our athletic structure
is as justified and important as our church and our academic training.
The importance of sports here is a fact and a very valid one.
Without the laudable esprit de corps, the sense of physical as well as
mental accomplishment that exists, St. John's just wouldn't be what
it is. Consequently, the attempts to expand the academic aspects shouldn't
outstrip that of the athletic in either attitude or facilities. This respon-sibility
belongs to everyone. Too much will be lost in an apathetic
approach.
croung America
on the cro-Cio
by Patti Poulsen
"Miss 400 Astrojet"
Flash: The biggest news ever to hit teen travel is the new
half-price plane fares! Anyone between the ages of 12
and 22 can now travel for 50% less than the regular price
of jet coach ticket—and to just about any place that's anything in
the U.S.!
* *
More young people will be taking to the skies than ever before. Know
what that means? The scene will be swinging even before the desti-nation
is reached!
Some tips for making that next trip the best ever: First, don't wait until
the night before to start making plans. Half fare travel is on a standby
basis so get your tickets beforehand.
Know someone where you're heading? Then drop him (or her) a
card before to set things up. Don't wait 'til you arrive to call; your
friend may already have plans and nothing beats the inside know-how
of a native for getting you the right spots.
Don't take everything with you that isn't nailed down.
Porters are always around except when you need them.
Just in case you should be one of "the chosen ones"
however, be sure to have some quarters in an accessible pocket.
Now, to get down to important business—where the kids are. The IN
spots are: More than ever before New York is where the action is.
Twenty years ago young people made pilgrimages to Paris; today they
come 1.0 NYC—the young people's town ... Provincetown, America's
Bohemia on the Waterfront and one of the liveliest, swingingest stretches
of sand on the American Mainland ... Washington—for a cultural-political
survey course the fun way! ... Los Angeles where the liveliest
season is the summertime when the Hollywood Bowl, Greek Theater,
Disneyland and the indomitable beach parties get into full swing.
Quickies: Don't miss—New York's Washington Square in
Greenwich Village, scene of a gigantic art show in the
spring and fall and folk singing every Sunday afternoon
... the Tombs in D.C.—a noisy cellar where beer starts at 350 and
you can chew on a Polish sausage for all of 170 ... "Pop" folk music
at The Troubadour in L.A. where if you can prove you're 16 you get
a 50% discount at the door ... San Francisco's Windsor Hotel, the
perfect pad for the student shoestring—plushy for the price ... "Camp"
is IN and so is camping in the Grand Canyon area...One of the farthest
out discotheques is Boston's Bibliotheque which does look like a library!
* * '5
For more of where the action is—send for a free 64-page booklet
"Go-Go American." It contains detailed information on student priced
accommodations, restaurants, and 200 IN discount coupons for top
spots all over the country! Just drop a card to Dept. ML, Youth Plan
Headquarters, 633 Third Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017.

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Coeval editors, seniors Jud Nelson and Phoebe Netterland meet extracurricularly to discuss the woes
and rewards of their literary task as they examine current "Patterns in Expression."
Vo me XLI — No. 17 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, March 16, 1966
Senate Moves Constitution Change;
Ammendment Faces Friday Ballot
Banquets highlighted last weekend's social activity. As can be
seen, a good time was had by all.
ghe £iLrcrr,
BETHEL COLLEGE
Student Senate Accepts
Candidacy Declarations
Coeval Depicts
Literary Value
Patterns in Expression. The idea
that all arts share the same ele-ments
is exciting. Literature has
rythms and movement and the
values the same as music or art,
but the media and arrangement
of the elements differ.
This suggested "patterns in ex-pression"
as the subtitle of the
1966 COEVAL.
Coeval serves the student body
in two basic areas of experi-ence:
individual and social. Be-cause
of the very published
nature of COEVAL it is an out-let
for creativity that gives per-sonal
satisfaction to the contri-butor.
A work in print means a certain
level of achievement; achievement
is incentive. The social experience
of a student is a sharing of inspir-ation
and ideas. On a campus
basis COEVAL a vehicle of com-munication.
The patterns are as many and
varied as the moods and ideas
expressed. In literature an essay
on artistic theory or criticism, a
satire on current problems or con-ditions,
etc., can be as creative
as a poem or short story.
In music a folk song is as valid
a contribution as a full length
symphony. And in art again the
field is wide open: paintings,
sculpture, and photography all
fit under the idea of expression.
The form of the book is defined
by student contribution and its
scope and quality depends on stu-dent
interest.
An All School Mixer is planned
for this weekend, March 19th at
7:30 p.m. in the college fieldhouse.
There will be an admission charge
of 35 cents.
Students attending will be fav-ored
with vocal solo by the "es-teemed"
Leonard Simons. Includ-ed
in the evening will be an old-time
movie, and some famous
skits.
Awards will also be presented
to the World's Greatest Lover and
the Most Famous Wing in the girls'
dorm.
Take out all your frustrations
while playing volleyball and bas-ketball.
The evening will conclude
WORDS TO THE WISE!
All those students planning
to run for Senate positions in
the coming election are request-ed
and encouraged to attend
the Senate meetings which are
held Tuesdays after Chapel in
lower level lounge.
On Friday, March 17, in the
Coffee Shop from 10:30 a.m.-3:30
p.m., the Bethel Student body is
asked to vote on a proposed Con-stitutional
change concerning elec-tion
requirements.
Senate has voted affirmatively
for this change. The students will
make the final decision on Friday
as to whether the Constitutional
ammendment will be instituted.
At present th? Bethel Ccnsti
tution, Article V, Section 1A, on
Janet Morgan, counselor in the
White Bear school system, will
speak at the March 22 Student Na-tional
Education Association
(SNEA) meeting in room 211 at
7:30 p.m.
Her topic is "What is a Profes-sional
Teacher" and related to the
new professional practices act and
her involvement in TEPS, Teach-with
good food—on the theme of
Saint Parick's day. The dress is
very casual and tennis shoes only.
Come, ready to participate and
have an enjoyable evening—watch-ing
your friends make fools of
themselves.
Class Arranges
Enormous Sale
The Sophomore Class White
Elephant Sale is coming to Bethel
March 24th and 25th. The Coffee
Shop will then be transformed in-to
a special bargain basement with
all items priced "cheap."
Class President Pete Porter says
that old things are needed—any-thing
from anybody—faculty, stu-dents,
janitors, or cooks.
The qualification, of course, is
that they are not broken and are
sellable. Barrels to collect the
"merchandise" will be in the Cof-fee
Shop beginning Thursday.
Qualifications f o r Elections,
reads: At the time of his nomina-tion,
a candidate for executive
office shall be an Association
member in his second consecu-tive
semester at Bethel College
and shall have a cumulative
honor point ratio of at least
2.5.
He shall maintain both his As-sociation
membership and an honor
ers' Educational and Professional
Standards.
Dr. Runbeck and Pat Fleming
heard Miss Morgan speak at the
State SNEA Leadership Confer-ence
and were impressed with
her ideas concerning the in-volvement
of the individual in
his profession even as a stu-dent.
Pat Fleming, president of
Bethel's SNEA, says: "After at-tending
the State SNEA Leader-ship
Conference and working with
those interested in education, I am
confident that education is a great
field. A new awareness of the im-portance
of being involved in a
professional group such as our
own SNEA has occurred. Students
must begin to work for their pro-fession
now."
In addition to discussion of
teaching as a profession, there will
be election of new officers at the
March 22 meeting.
Meetings in the past have of-fered
a variety of experiences
in the field of education. First
year teachers who have grad-uated
from Bethel have returned
to compare the actual situation
with that encountered as student
teachers.
Mr. Churchill from the State
Education Association spoke on
aspects of salary scales and what
to look for when signing contracts.
A sports night in the gym gave
students a chance to acquaint
themselves with other students in
their areas of interest. A film,
"Children Without" depicted so-cially
deprived children and sug-gested
ways in which they could
be helped.
Declaration of Candidacy notices
will be placed in student post
office boxes on Thursday, March
17.
Declarations of Candidacy are
being placed in P. 0.'s to
alert students to the coming
election, to encourage students to
discuss possible candidates, and to
offer each student the chance to
accept or reject the possibility
of running for a position of respon-sibility
in his student government.
Once a student has decided to
sign his Declaration of Candida-cy,
he should take it to the
Senate office (lower level base-ment)
and place it in the box
point ratio of at least 2.5 during
his term of office.
The PROPOSED CHANGE reads:
At the time of his nomination, a
candidate for an executive office
shall be an Association member
in his second consecutive semester
at Bethel College and shall have
a cumulative honor point ratio of
at least 2.25.
He shall maintain both his
Association irdernbership and an
honor point ratio of at least
2.25 during his term of office.
The essence of the change is to
lower the required grade point
ratio of those candidates who will
be running for the offices of Pres-ident,
Vice President, Campus Co-ordinator
and Treasurer.
Senate feels such a proposal
will be beneficial in that a greater
number of students will be quali-fied
to run for executive offices.
Persuasion and radio and tele-vision
classes will participate in an
interesting "lecture demonstra-tion"
Tuesday, March 22, called
"Spots Before Your Eyes." The
demonstration will be led by Mr.
Bruce Sifford, a Lutheran layman
and the director of the Minnesota
Church Committee on Radio and
Television.
The program concerns religi-ous
advertising from various his-marked
"Declarations and Peti-tions
for Candidacy."
At that time he should pick up
a petition in the senate office.
It is suggested that a friend carry
the petition around. The petition
must be signed by 30 students.
No person should place his sig-nature
on more than one petition
for the executive petitions or on
more than five petitions for the
Senate Member-at-large petitions.
Candidates would do well to
keep their eyes and ears open
as to who else will be running.
Each candidate should try to a-lign
himself with others of like
opinions. Parties should emerge
from these alignments.
Party platforms should be drawn
up and party primaries should
have been held prior to March 25,
the date of Primary Elections.
Candidates or politically inter-ested
students should talk to Sen-ate
members and officers: Bill
Madsen, Roger Waldenstrom, Bert
Heep, Jonelle Olson, Cabot Dow,
Phil Linden, Warren McMullen,
Mike Rynkiewich, Dennis Wall,
Joan Anderson, Dick Lawrence,
Vern Lewis, Dick Folden, Kathy
Harvie, Ray Peterson, Ron Stone,
Paul V. Johnson, Terry Kuntz,
Jaci Clark, Betty Magnuson, Barb
Kredit, and Steve Roe.
Trial Vespers
Under Critique
The Religious Committee's ex-periment
in Sunday evening Ves-per
services will continue for an-other
three weeks. Then, having
ciy Cnrirlar• to ann-lyze,
they will be extended accord-ing
to student response.
Dick Schultz, head of the Reli-gious
Committee, feels that the
next few services will be the real
test inasmuch as many students
will be on various trips or in-volved
in concerts.
Beginning March 20th, the ser-vices
will start at 8:30 p.m. rather
than 8:00 p.m.
torical and contemporary perspec-tives.
It will include several radio
"spots" or cuttings of the nature
of Stan Freberg's recent church
"advertisements" on radio.
The public is invited but there
are only 60 seats available. The
program will be presented in the
Old Seminary Chapel, from 1:30
to 2:30 p.m. on March 22.
Mixer Offers Fun and Games,
Presents Food, Old-Time Flick
SNEA Meeting Discusses
`The Professional Teacher'
Religious Advertising Director
Investigates Broadcast Trends
Mike Mansfield said Thursday Sincerely,
that he doesn't think President Q. T. Smih
Johnson is giving adequate con-sideration
to proposals to blockade
North Vietnam ports at this time.
Mansfield said he thinks bombing
the docks or intercepting supply
ships would drive Soviet and Chi-nese
Communists closer tegether.
New Delhi
Sikh volunteers shouting religi-ous
war cries counterattacked
thousands of stone-throwing Hin-dus
with spears and swords today
after the Hindus marched on the
holiest Sikh shrine in New Delhi.
It was the fourth day of rioting
in India by Hindus protesting the
federal givernment decision to es-tablish
an official Punjabi-speak-ing
state. Punjabi is the language
of the Sikhs.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the acad•olic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of licthel college
and seminal y, St. Paul 1. Minn. Subscrip
tion rate $3 per year.
Editor-in-chief John Halvorsen
News Editor Jeff Loomis
Feature Editor Anita Palm
Layout Editor Judy Malm
Copy Reader Mae Toedter
Typist Nancy Ballantine
Circulation Joyce Lehman
Photography John Hopkins
Advertising Manager Fran Malmsten
Business Manager . Gene Peterson
Advisor Wallace Nelson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
07/7.5-
'1 1310 WHEN YOU AGREED To CHIINGg MY GRADE I QUITE
NATURALLY A5LiME2 --
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the CLARION Wednesday, March 16, 1966
Reviewer Rakes Pseudo-Rationalism
Exercise of Involvement Evident in Anti-Evolutionary Treatise
Opens Creative Leaders
In lieu both of the present situation and function of the
Bethel College Student Senate as well as the pending student
government elections, it is important to examine the role the
student plays governing himself in the campus environment.
Basic to our discussion, we should recognize that offering
responsible functions to students should have the effect of
hastening their maturation and their sensitivity to civic par-ticipation.
This is good theory.
However, the facts reveal that all too often on the
Amercan scene college and university administrations, in
the midst of their declaration of eagerness to give youth
a proper sphere of campus activity, frequently interpret
this "proper sphere" as one far removed from serious and
vital campus decisions.
It is always easy to shepherd the leaders of the student
flock away into a far-removed, sheltered corner of the campus
pasture. If the leaders are there, like sheep, the student flock
will follow. Here they can carry on rather harmlessly, for
after all, anything they should decide that may be contrary
to administrative opinion can be squelched quite easily. Here,
as well, the student government becomes quite docile, and
with little power, insignificant.
Since there is little apparent conflict between student
interest and administrative policy, the educators, therefore,
applaud themselves on the smooth functioning of the school
and the great cooperation between student and administration,
when actually there is, in fact, little room for significant
student opinion.
Samuel B. Gould, Chancellor of the University of Cali-fornia,
Santa Barbara, quite pointedly states that "college
and universities with this approach can always be recognized:
they talk loudly and long about their superiority, boast of
the even and efficient tenor of the campus way, and carefully
eliminate the mavericks. They champion the "well adjusted"
and socially competent product whose major claim to recog-nition
is that he has not been troublesome."
Now, if we assume that the college is basically a labor-atory
for the training of the citizenry, it should be thought
of as a community-structured unit. Hence we call ourselves
the Bethel Community.
The problem, however, as pointed out by Paul Brouwer,
is the fact that often there is a double-cultured group within
the community, the students with their mores and traditions,
and the faculty and administration with their patterns and
customs. The problem of the community is to synthesize these
two standards into one, and this cannot be done without lower-ing
the barriers of faculty-student communication.
In his study, COLLEGE STUDENT GOVERNMENT, Dr.
Gordon Klopf suggests that the areas overlooked both by
administrations and students are the programs in which
they work closely together.
He states, "Committees which deal with student affairs
policies should have adequate student representation. Com-mittees
which are planning new curriculums or evaluating
present curriculums should at least consult students for their
opinions and ideas. College faculties and administrations should
be constantly on the lookout for possible opportunities to
expand the role of the student in administration."
Quite obviously involving students more deeply in ad-ministrative
capacities will be a burden to those faculty and
administration members involved. It may at times be annoying,
especially when it may take twice the time to accomplish a
task because of the student's trial and error method. Hours and
years of experience could have finished it sooner. But this
trial and error method is invaluable to the educative process.
Most important, however, is the fact that the administra-tion
cannot champion one of the salient ingredients of the
democratic process, namely, creative leadership, wtithou;t)
giving students the chance to effectively develop and exercise
it.
(ACP)—A group of students and
ing within the system and using
the attic of the student center at
instructors who met recently in
all available resources and pre-rogative
powers available to the
student as an autonomous self-
Wayne State University, Detroit, determining individual."
had little in common except that
In a policy statement, the group
they had complaints about the said:
University and they wanted
change. "It is our concern that student
freedom and the educational ex-
Out of the meeting came a new perience are being infringed upon
organization — the Students' Or- by the lock-step, patchwork of the
ganization for University Reform quarter that is the present Univer-
— set up to promote student in- sity education factory.
volvement in University affairs and
"This organization shall be a issues. The group was formed to
channel for collating specific do more than criticize, reports the
mechanical problems, e.g., inad-
Daily Collegian; it also plans to
equate classrooms, salaries, hous- propose workable solutions to Uni-ing,
parking, and to link these
versity problems. with the larger underlying is-A
spokesman for the group sues common to all involved in
said this will be done "by work- the educational experience, e.g.
by Michael Rynkeiwich fluously decorated with psycholog-ical,
biochemical and anthropolog-ical
catch phrases intended to lend
authority to nonsense.
It is necessary to impose upon
you an example of Paulson's work.
It is an entire paragraph.
"An honest appraisal of the
beginnings of life focuses atten-tion
upon deliberate falsehood,
which stems from an acceptance
that hypothesis is something
which guarantees the so-called
inevitable truth, for which there
is no basis in fact. From a such
wider horizon of intellectualism,
I can now say (and without fear
of honest criticism) that for too
long absconding atheists and
"discussion" of evolution super- theists alike have substituted an
IMP AMP,
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by Bruce Lawson
port than previously because of
his efforts to avoid escalation o
Singapore
the Vietnam war.
Indonesia's new army chief Lt.
Miami
General Sukarto announced last
week that the new military re- England's Prince Philip, also
known as the Duke of Edin- gime's foreign policy will be "anti-burgh,
began his 10,000 mile tour
capitalist, anti-imperialist" and
of North America last week in
generally anti-west. the hopes of raising as much as
a million dollars for children's
Saigon charities throughout the world.
Vietnam students in protest of
Major General Nguyen Chanh Thi's Washington, D.C.
dismissal, seized government ra-dio
stations in three major cities
and broadcast demands for the
General's reinstatement.
Washington
According to American offi-cials,
the NATO bases in France
are not indispensable to the ef-fective
defense of Europe. The
withdrawal of the 30,000 men
and their families from France
will cost the country up to $150
million in net dollars income.
Tokyo
In a series of three articles,
Communist China has hinted that
the U.S. may have the advantage
in the future. It is not known
what has replaced this new pessi-mism
in Peking for the unwaver-ing
public optimism of the past.
Washington, D.C.
Sen. George D. Aiken, R.-Vt.
said that critical senators are giv-ing
President Johnson more sup-the
quality of education, the
learning process, students rights,
and academic freedom.
"To facilitate our ends we shall
institute groups (a) to process
specific grievances of any and all
factions, student and faculty, left
and right; (b) to study viable al-ternatives
to the present system;
(c) to be concerned with the
mechanics of various channels
open to us within the system and
without; and (d) to enlist the sup-port
of the whole University."
Some of the issues discussed at
the meeting but not mentioned in
the statement are the quarter
system, grading system, freedom
of demonstration, inavailability of
instructors, sports, library hours,
and additional courses.
Ed. Note—JULIE THE BIOCHEMIST, Carl A.
Paulson, published by Ancient and Prophetic
Literary Research Publishers, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, 1965.
It is said that a little learning
is a dangerous thing. This pam-phlet
should be feared as a repre-sentation
of the result of very
little learning.
In an honest attempt to under-stand
the thesis and to grasp the
main point of the essay, the pres-sent
reviewer was able only to
come up with a headache.
The author's essay is an ag-gregate
of meaningless para-graphs
with topics roaming aim-lessly
from evolution to the con-dition
of the true believer.
The thesis first introduced is a
College Reform Committee Tackles
Bewildering Pan-Campus Problems
An alumnus of Behel (with a
4•10, Canadian accent) was heard to re-mark,
"That was the most impres-sive
game I have seen in ten
years!"
It was a most exciting game for
all of the fans, and all members
of the Bethel Community should
be proud of the team.
Many of the players have pur-chased
their own equipment, and
have devoted considerable time
and energy to keep the team to-gether.
As a member of the fac-ulty,
I feel that it was worth it!
obscured fancy for truth and
faith—the true building blocks
of life."
In context and out of context
one finds the same unfounded as-sumptions,
ambiguity and sheer
nonsense. This pamphlet is not
worth buying even for a laugh. It
is sad to see such pseudo-rational
farce in print.
Letter:
Smith Praises
To the Editor:
Tribute should be paid to the
Bethel hockey team for their de-cisive
win over River Falls!
Royal Players, Vince Bloom and Dick Fredrickson consider the
"Church Militant" in last Sunday's Drama Club presentation.
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Interview With Madsen
Shows Political Outlook
by Dave Fredine
Q—What do you expect from the
coming elections?
A—As has been the case in the
last three or four years. I think
there will be a scarcity of candi-dates.
The percentage of voters
might increase a little; last year
forty-five percent of the student
body voted. I don't see any auto-matic
winners, so people may rea-lize
the value of each vote. There
are really very few people with
any experience so there's nothing
to keep out interested freshmen.
Q—What changes have you
seen in student government this
year?
A—Senate relations with the
administration ha v e improved
greatly over the last couple of
years. We have had monthly lunch-eon
meetings with the administra-tors
which have broken down
many of the tensions and improved
communication.
This year's Senate is composed
of a wider cross-section of the
student body so communication
with students has improved also.
Student opinion of Senate has
waned. Unfortunately, a group
of upperclassmen who are close
friends, call it a clique if you
wish, have carried the ball in
Senate for several years.
Many of the students, freshmen
especially, have felt that they are
unapproachable. However, it was
the student body that elected this
group.
Opinions about student govern-ment
are changing all over. All
of the private colleges in the
Twin Cities are considering con-stitutional
revisions or abolishing
student government all together.
Q—What are some areas that
you think next year's Senate
should be active in?
A—Interests are changing away
from big social functions toward
the academic and the considera-tion
of serious life issues. This is
becoming obvious at Bethel, so
next year's Senate shouldn't spend
much time maintaining the tra-ditional.
Having more evening forums
and more off-campus speakers
would be one way to go about it.
I recently appointed a committee
for freshmen Senators to check
into the possibilities of getting a
coffee house in the neighborhood.
Q—What do you think about
the motion to abolish Senate?
A—It grew out of the feeling,
if I interpret it right, that a large
legislative body doesn't represent
student opinions. Those who sup-port
it seem to think that Senate
ought to do more than plan ban-quets.
The specific proposal was
made to give students a concrete
alternative to a large Senate.
Since there is a reaction against
this proposal, it seems that the
students feel the need for keeping
this kind of representative body.
So, the problem isn't whether or
not to abolish Senate but how to
change it to meet student demands.
Q—What role do you think a
student government can have in
a small college.
A—In a small school both the
students and the student govern-ment
are well-acquainted with the
administration, so there is greater
cont'd on page four
by Anita Palm
Playing to a small but respon-sive
audience, the players in the
"Church Militant" showed with
pointed satire the possible out-come
of a world centered church.
The play opens in the chamb-ers
of the Celestial Council where
Saint Paul, John Wesley, and Mar-tin
Luther—Dick Fredrickson, T.H.
Bryant, and Vince Bloom, respec-tively,
are discussing the "desper-ate
condition" of the church. They
have heard reports of the over-organization
and secularization of
the Christian church and must
decide what action should be tak-en.
Paul is sent immediately to in-vestigate
the situation personally.
As Paul enters the church,
he meets the janitor who is
cleaning up after one of the
numerous parties held in the
church the night before. Some-what
alarmed, Paul inquires fur-ther
and is shocked to hear of
"at home" worship through ex-clusive
television coverage and
"take home communion" for the
convenience of the members.
Hearing of the enormous beacon
to be installed on the top of the
church to attract people, Paul re-calls
with irony the commandment
to let our lights so shine among
men. The entire foundation of the
church is based on popular appeal
to the sinning masses supported
by funds raised through all manner
of contests. The distortion is na-turally
quite disturbing to Saint
Paul.
Justification of the various
church activities is found in hav-
Senate President Bill Madsen
ing to "keep up with the times"
and "talk to the children in their
own language." The church is
thereby known as "The Friendliest
Church This Side of Heaven!"
The true "brotherly love" of
the members is seen in a heated
debate over a regulation con-cerning
the tours to be given
through the "plant." Thelma,
(Jill Graham) a guide in the
church, is furious that she is not
allowed to take their guest Paul
through the customary tour. The
battle that ensues reveals that
the super-organization and com-petition
of the church tends to
make hash of the whole "spirit-ual
goal" (which incidently, not
one of the members could define
for Paul.)
Paul summed the essence of the
entire confused haggle when he
Wednesday, March 16, 1966
What should motivate a student
to run for a student government
office? What would be your an-swer
to such a question? Consid-ering
the nearness of Senate elec-tions,
it might be wise for voters
and candidates alike to start ask-ing
this question and other ques-tions
similar to it.
Here are the answers given by
a number of student government
leaders to the question "What
should motivate a student to run
for a student government office?"
Junior Class President Ron Har-ris
says: "The responsibility of
leadership which one encounters
proclaimed, "I thought the church
at Corinth had trouble!"
Because there is little in the
way of properties and only the
simplest costuming, one was able
to concentrate on the script. Also,
the spirited acting of the players
sparked the text into meaningful
conversation to show the point of
the play.
The play admittedly is an exag-geration.
Yet, through this means
it is able to highlight the tenden-cies
of the ever growing church
today. There is little given in the
way of solution, but Paul ended
the production prophetically plead-ing
to God to bring hope. There is
still time to curb the slide toward
the "Church Militant."
the CLARION Page 3
in political offices develops the
best qualities in an individual. It
certainly develops patience, which
in Christian circles, is supposed to
be an extremely golden virtue.
Historically speaking, the privilege
to be a part of a democratic
process, however slight, is one not
to be taken lightly."
"Personally, my interests cover
the total academic, social, and spir-itual
climate of our college. I
would like to see students more
actively involved in governing each
of these areas — and for that
reason look to student government
leadership as the logical place in
which to spark this type of total
concern." Jim Keim
"A student should run for a
student government office IF he
sees the necessity of the student's
concerns to be actively presented
to the powers that be (administra-tion)
and IF he feels he can help
see this accomplished." Steve Roe
"Christ's statements concerning
love should be followed on a social
level as well as an individual level.
Mature "agape" implies concern
and responsibility for others. Stu-dent
government provides an op-portunity
for the individual to
concretely express such concern
and responsibility." Kathy Harvie
"Why should one desire to serve
in a student government office?
Maybe for selfish reasons: 1. Cer-tainly
there is some prestige. 2.
One can learn a great deal in plan-ning
programs and in working with
people. 3. The office is noted on
one's permanent record."
However there is more than all
of this. There should be the desire
to serve and the desire to get in-volved
in the activities rather
than to sit in the backgrounds."
Dick Schultz.
"The primary reason for getting
involved in student government
should be based on the individual's
INTEREST for such an organiza-tion."
Roger Waldenstrom
"Student government presents
an opportunity to 1. serve others
and thus serve the Lord, 2. to ex-ercise
and develop any leader-ship
capabilities, 3. to help insti-tute
certain needed changes at
Bethel." Bill Ledbetter
"The ideal student has creative
ideas on how to construct solu-tions
to the everyday aspirations
and problems of his classmates.
He becomes an ideal candidate
when he is willing to sacrifice
personal goals in order to share
his ideas, time and ability to help
realize the goals of the communi-ty."
Bill Swenson.
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I wonder if my concept of the man Jesus is ' more than sligthly
distorted. Often I think we imagine Christ as piety personified and
little else. Being human he must have had a human personality —
tend to think it was a bit introverted.
Imagine Christ having to break away from the crowds so often.
They just saw what he did for them physically and missed the point
of why he was really with them. Can't you see him haggard at the
end of the day — disappointed, wondering how to get through to them?
When we read "Suffer the little children to come unto me . . ."
do we picture him kindly patting them on the head? It's my guess he
probably got down and played an early form of jacks with them.
How did Christ act toward his mother? I don't believe there was
any gooey sentiment between them, but he went to her for strength,
I'm sure. At least she understood his purpose and ministry.
Not wanting to bring Christ lower than he was, it's good to realize
that because of his humaness he was not somehow protected by an aura
of divine light surrounding him as he walked through the desert.
He probably got headaches after glaring in the sun all day, and
his feet probably hurt. Yet the fact that he experienced things
just like we do makes him all the more wonderful.
Who is Jesus? I'm going to start studying in light of his humanity
as well as his divinity. I don't think it will "bring him down to my
level" but will make him all the more dear for realizing the implica-tions
of his day to day existence.
Sincerely,
Royal Players Present Rott's Drama;
Play Satirizes Secularized Church
Survey Asks Motivation ;
Campus Leaders Respond
Page 4
the CLARION Wednesday, March 16, 1966
Royalettes Post Successful Season
Gain Honors, Presentable Record
by Jeff Loomis
Playing the fullest schedule in
the team's short history, this year's
edition of the Bethel Women's
Basketball team finished out their
season with an 11-6 record and a
large number of honors for team
members.
Girls playing on the team were
present at the Sports Banquet
held Monday evening for partici-pants
in winter season sports. Six-teen
team members received let-ters,
almost doubling last year's
total of awards. This figure re-flected
an increased number of
participants in the sport this sea-son.
Barb Lindman, sophomore play-er
on the team, was far in the
lead for scorers, concluding the
year with 232 total points. She
was followed by Jan Markel!,
who recorded 111 counters, and
Bev Anderson with 98 points.
Bev also took honors for free
throws, shooting a percentage of
60% of her shots during the sea-son.
Girls on the team voted for Most
Valuable and Most Improved play-ers,
to whom awards were present-ed
at the Monday evening banquet.
Barb Lindman was rated Most Val-uable,
while Marge Rubow and
Sandy Spurgeon, two freshmen
team members, shared the prize
for Most Improved.
On the team scene, the girls
finished ahead of their oppo-nents
in scoring for the season,
tallying an average of 29 points
against 24 for the other teams.
Miss Jean Anderson, who in
her freshman year of coaching
led the way to the team's out-standing
record, was reluctant to
cite one game or tournament as
the highlight of the season. She
did hazard a guess, however.
"Probably the most exciting ex-perience
was on the last clay of
the season, when we played at the
University of Minnesota, defeating
River Falls and Macalester and
losing to the 'U' by one point in
overtime," she said.
Well-planned publicity by team
members resulted in some fair-ly
well-attended games this sea-son.
Nevertheless, Miss Ander-son
expressed the wish that more
students will be attending games
when next year's team opens its
season.
Promises for '66-'67 appear good.
Only one senior is graduating,
leaving the school with the base
group for another excellent team.
Bethel Royalettes posted a respectable 11-6 record
fullest season ever engaged by a team in the recent history
basketball at Behel.
during the
of women's
`Pit' Rivals Dorm Council
As Dorm Tourney Ends
Monday and Tuesday nights,
March 7 and 8, saw the Edgren
men fighting out the semi-finals
of their basketball tournament.
Monday night's game ended with
the "Pit" boys victorious over first
floor new wing men with a score
of 44-39. During the entire first
three quarters of the game, the
first floor fellows maintained a
fairly consistent lead of one or
two points.
However, in the last quarter
first floor was plagued with fouls.
The Pit was aided largely by the
skill of Ron Pederson.
Tuesday's battle was between
the Dorm Council and second floor
new wing. The Dorm Council was
triumphant with a 59-34 victory.
Action in the first half of the game
was simply a see-saw between the
opponents.
The second half of the game
switched suddenly in favor of the
Dorm Council in a sudden break.
Lantz Leonard and Paul I. John-son
were responsible for the lead-ership
of their team to bring them
in dramatically 25 points ahead.
The final round between the Pit
Boys and the Dorm Council was
played Tuesday night.
Student Government President
Evaluates New Senate's Future
cont'd from page three
opportunity for initiating ideas
and programs. The students and
student government are also in
closer touch with each other.
The student government can in-fluence
many areas of campus life:
for example, curriculum, school
policies, personnel, intellectual
awareness, political awareness, cul-tural
awareness, social concern and
social interaction.
0—What do you think the fu-ture
of student government at
Bethel will be like?
A—I think that there will al-ways
be a desire for student gov-ernment
at Bethel. We have had
motions to abolish it in the past.
In '55-'56 a motion to abolish
Senate was put before the whole
student body and was defeated by
only five votes.
The future of student govern-ment
depends on student involve-ment
and the students' willingness
to contribute time and ideas. You
can see the influences of some
students' willingness to work
through the Senate in things like
the Sunday evening Vesper ser-vice,
the missionary project, the
pictured roster, changing dorm
hours, increasing lounge space,
continuing the publication of the
SPIRE and the food service corn-mittee.
The Senate does not lack for
finances, power or opportunity.
The only limitation I can see on
the potential of student govern-ment
at Bethel is lack of stu-dents
who are willing to contri-bute
effort, initiative, and ideas.
The value of next year's Senate
will be forecast by the willingness
of students to run for office and
assume the accompanying respon-sibility.
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Ed.Note—The following article, written by Sports Editor,
John Ryan, appeared in the St. John's RECORD, February 15, 1966.
Although based on the sports climate at St. John's University,
applies equally well to the attitude on Bethel's campus.
WHEN THE ICEMAN of the midwest has St. John's locked securely
In his mid-winter freezer, what does Johnny do to keep sane? He plays
sports. He delves in everything from handball to ping-pong. He wreaks
frustration on frozen ski hills and in sweaty weight rooms. He does
it for competition and just for the heck of it.
He plays not one but many sports, depending upon the season.
Seasonal intramurals are virtual war games, with as many as 300 bat-tling
for recognition as the school's best non-lettermen. Yet our Gothic
gym hums continually with friendly pick-up games where no ref is
needed.
The significance of all this may be that the phenomena of sports
contributes more to what is termed "Johnny Spirit" than we realize.
True, much is said about the scholar-athlete but this is the case in any
school. What is uniquely present here is the almost total absence of
a sports clique. Our athletic successes belong not to scholarship fra-ternity
Adonises but to men we know, study and live with.
Sports here are more than a headline or a letter jacket; they are
as much a part of St. John's as the education and permeate Collegeville
existence. Sports serve as an adhesive and if and when St. John's
becomes a "weekend" school the apathy will strike first in athletics.
Not that we won't have our share of championship teams but the
seams of intra-athletics will come apart under the influence of mobility.
As a consequence, St. John's will witness, to a large extent, the break-up
of whatever else constitutes Johnny Spirit. Gone will be the factor
of healthy sports, the major deterrent to stale academic competition.
Thus, I think when one discusses or reflects upon what St. John's
is and will be, he should realize that pride in our athletic structure
is as justified and important as our church and our academic training.
The importance of sports here is a fact and a very valid one.
Without the laudable esprit de corps, the sense of physical as well as
mental accomplishment that exists, St. John's just wouldn't be what
it is. Consequently, the attempts to expand the academic aspects shouldn't
outstrip that of the athletic in either attitude or facilities. This respon-sibility
belongs to everyone. Too much will be lost in an apathetic
approach.
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Know someone where you're heading? Then drop him (or her) a
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Don't take everything with you that isn't nailed down.
Porters are always around except when you need them.
Just in case you should be one of "the chosen ones"
however, be sure to have some quarters in an accessible pocket.
Now, to get down to important business—where the kids are. The IN
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Twenty years ago young people made pilgrimages to Paris; today they
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